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Digital Moonscapes

Digital Moonscapes (1984) is an album by Wendy Carlos. "Written for orchestra, it is inspired by several astronomical subjects." A symphony orchestra is simulated using Digital Synth's GDS and Synergy Digital Synthesizers. These used additive and complex FM/PM modulation. She named her ensemble the LSI Philharmonic: "('Large Scale Integration' circuits, i.e., computer chips)". "This was the first digitally synthesized orchestra of any significance that a single composer could command."But why do all this?...The goal ought to be providing the base on which to build new sounds with orchestral qualities that have not been heard before but are equally satisfying to the ear...look for the next steps using the experimental hybrid and imaginary sounds which have grown out of this work.

Critical reception
The music on the album is described as: "veer[ing] uncomfortably between murky electronic experimentalism and weedy pseudo-baroque," and as, "thoroughly tonal, Romantic-orchestra-inspired, electronic tone poems." The New York Times praised the "inventively colorful, atmospheric suites," writing that Carlos shows, "fairly convincingly, that digital synthesizers can mimic orchestral timbres far more successfully than the old analogue machines could." The Rolling Stone Album Guide called the album "pleasant," but wrote that it "might now be filed under 'New Age'." ==Track listing==
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